The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-03-18
ABOUT WOMEN.

DR.. Laura Weld, from Boston, has hung
out her professional sign in Dresden, Ger
many.
Mrs. Mary Murphy, of st. Louis, is 100
years old and is just cutting her wisdom
teeth.
Miss Patrice Bosricault, tho daughter of
Dion Boucicault, is engaged in giving instruc-
tions to young ladies in elocution.
Mrs Ransom, wife Of the senator, is one of
the most highly educated women in the
south. She fitted each one of her six sons for
college. #zts5
Mrs Fisher handsome brunette of me-
chaniicai ttirfi ef mind runs eighty horse
power Corliss engine in Providence, r. T.
and does it we'll
The only female tombone player in this
country is Miss Anna Siegel, who received
her musical education in the Vienna Con-
servatory of Music.
They say that Patti never washes her face
with water. But she covers it with cold
cream and scrapes it off. In this way she
hopes to prevent wrinkles, and she has been
very successful SO far.
Miss Ada Leigh, the English philanthro-
pist, who few years ago started home for
young men, with O. restaurant and reading
room attached, is now in New York, bent ON
performing some work of similar nature
there ..-.,
Gen. Horace Porter said the other night
that no description of woman could be
happier and juster than that famous one:
"Corporeal enough to attest her humanity,
yet so transparent that the Divine light shines
through ~
Mrs. Margaret ]. Preston, the Virginia
poet, and her sister, Eleanor Cochrane Jack
son, who was the first wife of Stonewal1
jackson, were granddaughters of Eleanor
Cochrane, who, with Sallie Brown, the
grandmother of Benjamin and William
Chambers, escaped massacre by being absent
from Enoch Browns school when it was at
tackled by Indians on July 26, 1764.
When Mile. Say married the son of the
Due de Brissac her reception in the Faubourg
Saint German was frigid. Her invitations
were not accepted, the aristocracy could not
accept the sugar refinery; but bravely she
waited her time. One day as she served tea
to some of her husbands friends, few drops
fell upon her dress. As she touched them
with her handkerchief the Due de Choiseul-
Praslin said: "Be careful, sugar stains"
LESS than blood, your Grace" the young
hostess replied with the greatest coolness
The duke blushed and turned away, for be
remembered trial in his own family-trial
caused by bloodshed.
Twenty years ago French women had a
caprice about snakes They made pets of
them. The Princess de 10 Tour d'Auvergne
always kept a little one in her pocket, alive,
of course. Her husband objected, and her
friends did not all quite like it, but no en-
treaties availed to separate her from the little
reptile that she loved. Nine. Musard wore
small viper on her neck among her incom-
parable diamonds. When she appeared in
her box at the opera every glass ia the house
was leveled at her as she sat scintillating with
diamonds, and with the dark coil of the SER
pent's body illustrating the whiteness of her
neck. Later ON the Comtesse de Villeneuve
for several months wore on her neck beauti-
full scarabeus beetle It was tethered to n
ring by very slender golden chain. 1t could
run about ON her shoulders, a sight which
pleased hut few who saw it. An American
lady, n few seasons ago, initiated this tlistiH-
guished example. In both cases the little
creatures died of starvation.